Loosely based on the novel by Alexander Key Escape to Witch Mountain, Race to Witch Mountain is not so much a remake of the 1975 film Escape to Witch Mountain as a new film is based on a number of important plot points of the former film. When two innocent-looking teens seem's Jack Bruno (Dwayne Johnson) cabin and tell him that "we must travel in that direction," Jack thinks that it is a bit strange, but Shrug it off and start driving. Soon they are followed and pursued the road, but Jack's past is catching up with him or something bigger? Sara (AnnaSophia Robb) and Seth (Alexander Ludwig) reluctantly admit that an alien from another planet, but Jack refuses to accept their explanation to Sara starts moving things with her eyes and Seth slips through the body of the car and that deflects the SUV's pursuit of them. Sara and Seth tells Jack that they must repair their crashed spaceship to save the earth is taken over by foreigners, so Jack takes them to see Dr. Alex Friedman (Carla Gugino), a scientist who he met by chance and who believes the possible existence of extra-terrestres trials. While the four initially wary of another, Dr Friedman provides a number of valuable contacts they trust each other and start from pure necessity. Soon, they fight secret government, heavily armed personnel, and even a cybernetic siphon (which looks a lot like a CYLON from Battlestar Galactica) in a desperate attempt to gain access to the heavily fortified Witch Mountain and the spacecraft crashed. Action-packed pursuits dominate the film (a bit exaggerated, in this reviewer's opinion), but the acting and the chemistry between the players is good, and the excitement and intrigue. Rated PG due to sequences of action and violence, frightening and dangerous situations and some thematic elements.
- Actors: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, Ted Hartley
- Directors: Andy Fickman
- Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: English
- Subtitles: French, Spanish
- Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Studio: Walt Disney Video
- DVD Release Date: August 4, 2009
- Run Time: 99 minutes
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